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in that branch of industry must offer to it temp- 

 tations that agriculture does not present. But if by 

 any alterations the cloths of Poland should in the 

 Russian custom-houses be placed on the footing of the 

 cloths of other countries, or if a rise of Corn and of 

 Wages should take place to such an extent as to 

 make the Polish cloths dearer than those which are 

 charged with duty, the effects might be to drive the 

 capital from the cloth trade to the business of culti- 

 vation. The present want of capital may possibly be 

 supplied by influx from other countries, but this must 

 depend in a great measure on the internal govern- 

 ment and political regulations of the country. The 

 increase of manufactories in Poland, and the aug- 

 mented population which they usually induce, might 

 produce such a number of internal consumers as to 

 leave much less surplus Corn to export to other coun- 

 tries. It is true that Wheat would be but little eaten 

 by the manufacturers, but the increased demand for 

 Rye might make that kind of Grain the most profit- 

 able to the grower ; and he would then devote to the 

 cultivation of it some portions of the land which, 

 under different circumstances, would have been ap- 

 propriated to the growth of Wheat. 



The Manufacturers in Poland are however of too 

 little importance, at present, to make it desirable to 

 hazard any conjectures on what the effects of their 

 increase or diminution would be on the surplus quan- 

 tity of exportable Grain. 



A view of the past Exportation from the Vistula, 

 at different periods, and under different circumstances, 

 will perhaps give some assistance in forming an idea 

 of what may be the result of future changes. 



It is worthy of remark, that in the long period of 

 166 years, of which the Returns are given (see 

 Appendix, No. 24), there has been but little variation 

 m the actual quantities of Corn exported from 



